[R-SIG-Mac] compile R on Mac OS 10.9.4 with cairo support

[Tobias Verbeke]

Dear Simon, Dear Prof. Ripley,

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Simon Urbanek" <simon.urbanek at r-project.org>
> To: "Prof Brian Ripley" <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>, "Tobias Verbeke" <tobias.verbeke at openanalytics.eu>
> Cc: r-sig-mac at r-project.org
> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 4:41:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] compile R on Mac OS 10.9.4 with cairo support
> 
> 
> On Aug 25, 2014, at 3:03 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On 23/08/2014 16:43, Tobias Verbeke wrote:
> >> Dear list,
> >> 
> >> I'm trying to compile R from source on Mac OS 10.9.4 using the flags from
> >> 
> >> https://svn.r-project.org/R-dev-web/trunk/QA/Simon/R-build/conf.mavericks-x86_64
> >> 
> >> I untarred the following libraries from http://r.research.att.com/libs/
> >> 
> >> gfortran-4.8.2-darwin13.tar.bz2
> >> tcl8.6.0-darwin10-x86_64.tar.gz
> >> tk8.6.0-darwin10-x86_64.tar.gz
> >> freetype-2.5.3-darwin10-bin2.tar.gz
> >> pkg-config-0.25-darwin9-bin3.tar.gz
> >> fontconfig-2.11.1-darwin10-bin2.tar.gz
> >> fontconfig-2.11.1-add.tar.gz
> >> cairo-1.12.16-darwin10-bin2.tar.gz
> >> jpeg-v8d-darwin9-bin4.tar.gz
> >> libpng-1.5.18-darwin10-bin2.tar.gz
> >> tiff-4.0.3-darwin10-bin2.tar.gz
> >> pixman-0.32.4-darwin10-bin2.tar.gz
> >> xz-5.0.5-darwin10-bin2.tar.gz
> >> 
> >> Then I applied the patch from
> >> http://r.research.att.com/libs/cairo-1.12.16-darwin13-static-pkgconfig.patch
> >> using
> >> 
> >> cd /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
> >> sudo curl -O
> >> http://r.research.att.com/libs/cairo-1.12.16-darwin13-static-pkgconfig.patch
> >> sudo patch < cairo-1.12.16-darwin13-static-pkgconfig.patch
> >> 
> >> Some patches are rejected and the resulting 'fontconfig.pc.rej' looks as
> >> follows:
> >> 
> >> ***************
> >> *** 13,18 ****
> >>   Version: 2.11.0
> >>   Requires:  freetype2
> >>   Requires.private:  libxml-2.0
> >> - Libs: -L${libdir} -lfontconfig
> >> - Libs.private:  -L/usr/local/lib -lfreetype    -lxml2
> >>   Cflags: -I${includedir}  -I/usr/local/include/freetype2
> >>   -I/usr/local/include/libpng15    -I/usr/include/libxml2
> >> --- 13,18 ----
> >>   Version: 2.11.0
> >>   Requires:  freetype2
> >>   Requires.private:  libxml-2.0
> >> + Libs: /usr/local/lib/libfontconfig.a
> >> + Libs.private:  /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.a -lxml2
> >>   Cflags: -I${includedir}  -I/usr/local/include/freetype2
> >>   -I/usr/local/include/libpng15    -I/usr/include/libxml2
> >> 
> >> Compilation itself goes fine, but I do not succeed in getting proper cairo
> >> support.
> >> 
> >> The config.log has the following:
> >> 
> >> checking whether pkg-config knows about cairo... yes
> >> Package libxml-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> >> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libxml-2.0.pc'
> >> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> >> Package 'libxml-2.0', required by 'Fontconfig', not found
> >> Package libxml-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> >> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libxml-2.0.pc'
> >> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> >> Package 'libxml-2.0', required by 'Fontconfig', not found
> >> Package libxml-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> >> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libxml-2.0.pc'
> >> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> >> Package 'libxml-2.0', required by 'Fontconfig', not found
> >> Package libxml-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> >> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libxml-2.0.pc'
> >> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> >> Package 'libxml-2.0', required by 'Fontconfig', not found
> >> checking whether cairo is >= 1.2 and works... no
> >> 
> >> Executing
> >> 
> >> sudo find / -name libxml-2.0.pc
> >> 
> >> does not give any results.
> >> 
> >> I must have overlooked something. Is there other information I can
> >> provide?
> > 
> > Apple overlooked something.  The pkg-config you are using is not provided
> > by Apple, and Apple does not provide pkg-config files for the software it
> > provides[*] where installing from sources would do so.
> > 
> > I do have a /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/libxml-2.0.pc, containing
> > 
> > prefix=/usr
> > exec_prefix=${prefix}
> > libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
> > includedir=${prefix}/include
> > modules=1
> > 
> > Name: libXML
> > Version: 2.9.1
> > Description: libXML library version2.
> > Requires:
> > Libs: -L${libdir} -lxml2
> > Libs.private:  -lpthread -lz  -liconv -lm
> > Cflags: -I${includedir}/libxml2
> > 
> > from a source installation of libxml2.
> > 
> > [*] Strangely, /usr/lib/pkgconfig is not quite empty on my box.
> > 
> 
> Indeed, I have
> 
> $ ls -l /usr/lib/pkgconfig/
> total 32
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   329 Dec  6  2013 apr-1.pc
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   446 Dec  6  2013 apr-util-1.pc
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   239 Dec  6  2013 libcrypto.pc
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1803 Mar 26 16:16 libcurl.pc
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   327 Dec  6  2013 libedit.pc
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   275 Mar 26 16:17 libexslt.pc
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  3591 Dec  6  2013 libiodbc.pc
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   268 Dec  6  2013 libpcre.pc
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   301 Dec  6  2013 libpcreposix.pc
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   254 Dec  6  2013 libssl.pc
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   268 Mar 26 16:17 libxml-2.0.pc
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   265 Mar 26 16:17 libxslt.pc
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   264 Dec  6  2013 openssl.pc
> 
> Those are all for system libraries. But I can't really tell where they come
> from - some of them are from the base system:
> 
> $ pkgutil --file-info /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libpcre.pc
> volume: /
> path: /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libpcre.pc
> 
> pkgid: com.apple.pkg.Essentials
> pkg-version: 10.9.0.1.1.1306847324
> install-time: 1386365859
> 
> but the one in question doesn't have a record:
> 
> $ pkgutil --file-info /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libxml-2.0.pc
> volume: /
> path: /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libxml-2.0.pc
> 
> I have put the ones without provenance into
> 
> http://r.research.att.com/libs/pkgconfig-system-stubs-darwin13.tar.gz
> 
> in case they are useful

These indeed proved to be useful and I can now compile successfully.

Many thanks for your help and I wish you a joyous holiday season!

Kind regards,
Tobias